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News: Research
UW selected as host institution for Brinson Prize and 51-Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowships
September 15, 2023
Harvard professor Avi Loeb says he found interstellar objects in the deep sea -- others are skeptical
September 3, 2023
Introducing the 2023 Summer Student Research Prize Winners
August 11, 2023
'Potentially hazardous' 600-foot asteroid detected near Earth after a year of hiding in plain sight
August 2, 2023
New algorithm hunting for dangerous asteroids spots its first one during test
August 2, 2023
Scientists test algorithm that spots potentially hazardous asteroids
July 31, 2023
New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
July 31, 2023
New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
July 30, 2023
A nearby supernova could be our chance to hear from aliens
June 12, 2023
Secrets of the stars
May 29, 2023
A Recap: American Astronomical Society 241st Meeting in Seattle
March 15, 2023
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
February 14, 2023
AAS Names Recipients of 2023 Awards & Prizes
February 2, 2023
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
January 11, 2023
Old and new stars paint very different pictures of the Triangulum galaxy
January 10, 2023
Unusually brightening star captures attention as a stellar oddity
January 10, 2023
The seven-year photobomb: Distant star’s dimming was likely a ‘dusty’ companion getting in the way, astronomers say
January 9, 2023
From Artemis to Webb, take a look back - and a look ahead - at the year's top trends in aerospace
January 2, 2023
The military is about to launch a constellation
January 2, 2023
JWST shows how several stars "stirred up" the Southern Ring Nebula
December 8, 2022
Big Data in the Night Sky
December 1, 2022
Big Data in the Night Sky
November 30, 2022
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
November 7, 2022
Satellite constellations are an existential threat for astronomy
November 6, 2022
Meteor lights up night sky in Pacific Northwest
October 13, 2022
Lots of junk is floating in outer space. How can we clean it up?
September 21, 2022
Some dying stars could have hidden conspirators shaping their afterlife
August 28, 2022
Biden and NASA unveil James Webb Space Telescope's first image
July 11, 2022
William Herschel is famous for science ? what about his music?
June 26, 2022
How 'Big Data' could help SETI scientists focus the search for aliens
June 22, 2022
Planet Nine: The answer to this cosmic mystery may come sooner than you think
June 16, 2022
Saving Earth from killer asteroids
June 2, 2022
The first privately funded killer asteroid spotter is here
June 2, 2022
New tool detects potential impact asteroids with help from the past
May 31, 2022
UW-developed, cloud-based astrodynamics platform to discover and track asteroids
May 30, 2022
Prof. Emily Levesque receives Guggenheim Fellowship
April 14, 2022
Superflares may be less harmful to exoplanets than previously thought, study shows
August 11, 2021
See the first photos from the Hubble telescope after a major computer malfunction
July 29, 2021
New high-precision measurements of TRAPPIST-1 planets
January 22, 2021
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